Producer’s Best Friend takes the tedious work out of creating all kinds of clip usage reports. Report on clips in an Event (like Batch List in FCP7), clips in a Compound Clip or clips in a Project in an Excel spreadsheet in seconds. Why spend days doing a boring task when it can take minutes?

Producer’s Best Friend can generate music use reports as well as Video and Audio Effects, Roles and Subroles, Transitions and Markers directly to a fully formatted Excel spreadsheet, without the convoluted use of an EDL or copy/paste techniques.

You can choose which Roles to include in the report (Video, Titles, Dialogue, Music, Effects, and any roles and subroles you’ve created), and Preferences lets you choose whether times are displayed as seconds, frames, feet+frames or HH:MM:SS:FF timecode format.

Producer’s Best Friend will get you home earlier by:
• Speeding the reporting of clip usage for music reports, stock footage requests, effects used, markers and keywords with amazing flexibility. Reports are complete in seconds, not hours or days.
• Providing full control over the report: choose which roles/subroles are included.

Producer’s Best Friend will save you money because:
• Your clip reports are completed in seconds instead of hours or days.
• You have full control over the report: choose which Roles to include in the report(s) including Roles and Subroles you’ve created.
• Generate as many reports as you need: create a music usage report; create a report of every clip used in a Compound Clip or Project, or every clip in an Event; report stock footage used, to order the full resolution for online; list out all Effects, Transitions, Titles and Generators used to smooth online finishing (the Apple column shows whether it’s a standard effect or transition compared to one created by a third-party); report all the comments in your Markers.
• Generate one report for the whole timeline, or report role-by-role.

Reports can be further processed in your spreadsheet application for formatting and additional detail, if required.

• New feature: window width can be adjusted
• New feature: Retime (Hold) is reported instead of an averaged speed
• Bug fix for window size not being remembered
• Bug fix for a crash caused by clicking the Analyze button a second time

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Most Helpful Reviews

5/5

Version 1.0.1

Review by ritemart

It's so clever -
You export the project notes, markers and notes from a FCPX project via XML into Producer's Best Friend which then it generates reports of everything in Excel format. So in seconds you have a list of things to do, clips that you've used, transitions, with times, durations, everything all in a spreadsheet.
I take the spreadsheet, move the columns around, remove those I don't need, and (exporting via a .csv file) start it up in an outliner (Novamind, which will import from a text file) so I can start a paper edit using my favorite Outliner app on the iPad, so I can do that with all the notes that I've made on the clips, mull that over then go back to FCPX to finish the edit. I prefer to do the thinking in an outliner first, and because I'm outlining with all the actual timings and notes and markers from the project, the paper edit is very easy to put together,.
The spreadsheet is a good intermediate as you can rearrange, format, edit, search to your heart's content on the data without touching any clips. You don't need a database, Numbers is plenty good enough.
The outliner is really fast for grouping information about clips, thematically, to-do's, notes, ideas.
Producer's Best Friend is worth its weight in gold, many times over.